When the waterfall freezes it creates the Ice Palace, a strange, magical ice-structure of chambers, trees and towers.

It already fascinates Siss, an 11-year-old girl, and her school-friends. And it fascinates a new girl, Unn, even more.

Episode One
Knowing little about her, Siss visits the new girl, Unn, at her home for the first time.

Tarjei Vesaas was born in 1897 in Vinje, Telemark in southern Norway. He wrote more than 25 novels, of which The Ice Palace, published in 1963, is probably his best-known. He died, also in Vinje, in 1970.

Writer: Tarjei Vesaas
Translator: Elizabeth Rokkan
Reader: Greta Scacchi
Producer: Jeremy Osborne

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